2019 - Poets Reading The News

We Look Down the Barrel of Our Own Nuclear Apocalypse For the Seventh Time Today [AUDIO]

By C. Samual Rees. "We neglect my curriculum for makeshift apocalypses & pale horses & lines of code."

To A Ugandan Granddaughter

By Jane Yolen. Ugandan activist Stella Nyanzi is serving an 18-month prison sentence for her vagina-centric political poetry.

Waiting in Line to Donate Blood After a Mass Shooting

By Andrew Posner. How does so much bounty go to rot time after time after time?

Remora

By Richard Garcia. It's another word for remorse.

Gilroy

By Marina Stevenson. Garlic cloves, like gun rights, must be broken to let the healing begin.

Ripples

By Mary Ann Honaker. For survivors of the latest mass shootings, this is a news cycle that will never stop.

Silence Between Thoughts, After Prayers

By Megan Merchant. "We are calling this piece ‘249 mass shootings in 2019’. A title in-progress."

Your Equation of Time and Loss

By Yvonne Daley. Three mass shootings in one week and each took place on colonized land.

Spell

By Peggy Brightman. Circe takes on Congress.

In Roundup Country

By Jed Myers. A rumination on the border officers making immigrant roundups possible.

2019 - Page 9

We Look Down the Barrel of Our Own Nuclear Apocalypse For the Seventh Time Today [AUDIO]

To A Ugandan Granddaughter

Waiting in Line to Donate Blood After a Mass Shooting

Remora

Gilroy

Ripples

Silence Between Thoughts, After Prayers

Your Equation of Time and Loss

Spell

In Roundup Country

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